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Death rates decline for advanced heart failure patients, but outcomes are still not idealUCLA researchers examining outcomes for advanced heart-failure patients over the past two decades have found that, coinciding with the increased availability and use of new therapies, overall mortality ....UCLA live-tweets surgery to implant brain pacemaker while patient strums guitarA team of UCLA Health System brain specialists implanted a brain pacemaker in a 39-year-old man on Thursday. It was the 500th such procedure the team had completed, but the first time the group had invited ....Latest news on planned strike by patient-care workers unions at UC, UCLAThe American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, which represents more than 12,500 University of California patient care employees, has asked its members to strike at UC ....UCLA Health System takes steps in anticipation of strikeUCLA Health System has taken numerous steps to protect patient safety in anticipation of a strike expected to begin at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21. In anticipation that hundreds of AFSCME and UPTE employees ....Founder of UCLA TIES for Families honored for career dedicated to fostering and adoption of childrenSusan Edelstein Susan Edelstein, the founder and director of UCLA TIES for Families, received an Advocate Award from RaiseAChild.US at its annual gala at the W Hotel in Hollywood on May ....No-treatment approach may be best choice for older prostate cancer patientsOlder prostate cancer patients with other underlying health conditions should think twice before committing to surgery or radiation therapy for their cancer, according to a multi-center study led by researchers .... |
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Brain rewires itself after damage or injury, life scientists discoverWhen the brain's primary "learning center" is damaged, complex new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, say life scientists from UCLA and Australia who have pinpointed the regions ....Jekyll into Hyde: Breathing auto emissions turns HDL cholesterol from 'good' to 'bad'Dr. Jesus Araujo Academic researchers have found that breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, altering its cardiovascular protective ....Chancellor Block comments on Laboratory of Neuro ImagingChancellor Gene Block issued this statement on May 9, 2013. UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) has been an international pioneer in enhancing the understanding of human brain structure .... |
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